Hershon, Joanna

The German bride : a novel by Joanna Hershon( Book )

17 editions published between 2007 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 1,151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1865, a secret affair with the artist hired by her German Jewish father to paint his daughters' portraits forces Eva into a quick marriage and drives her to leave Berlin to seek a new life on the frontier of the American Southwest

Swimming by Joanna Hershon( Book )

17 editions published between 2000 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 1,035 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

What happened the weekend that Aaron Wheeler brought his girlfriend Suzanne home to meet his family for the first time would change things forever. In this remarkable, lyrically written debut novel, Hershon captures the ever-evolving aftermath of one tragic summer weekend for the Wheeler family in New Hampshire

A dual inheritance : a novel by Joanna Hershon( Book )

8 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in English and held by 895 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Forging an intense friendship in their senior year at Harvard, Ed, a Jewish, girl-crazy scholarship student; and Hugh, a Boston Brahmin who dedicatedly pines for the one who got away; abruptly and mysteriously go their separate ways years later and pursue very different lives that are shaped by their past bond

The outside of August by Joanna Hershon( Book )

14 editions published between 2003 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The prolonged absences of her mother, Charlotte, have a profound impact on her children as Alice grows increasingly unconnected and her brother, August, uses his tenuous bond with Charlotte to achieve a certain freedom

A dual inheritance by Joanna Hershon( Recording )

5 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from Hugh's privileged upbringing as a Boston Brahmin, yet his drive and ambition outpace Hugh's ambivalence about his own life. These two young men form an unlikely friendship, bolstered by a fierce shared desire to transcend their circumstances. But in just a few short years, not only do their paths diverge, one rising on Wall Street, the other becoming a kind of global humanitarian, but their friendship ends abruptly, with only one of them understanding why

The outside of August by Joanna Hershon( Recording )

1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thoughts of an all-too-absent mother send a young woman on a voyage of self-discovery

Swimming by Joanna Hershon( Recording )

1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lila is consumed with love for her two older brothers, Aaron and Jack, and is blind to the simmering tension between them. Suzanne, Aaron's girlfriend, unleashes the forces of rage between Aaron and Jack, compelling one brother to commit an act against the other that can never be taken back. A decade later, Lila still searches for Aaron, who disappeared that night, and Suzanne, whose mystique still exerts a hold on Lila's memory. For Lila to move past her family's tragedy, she must piece together that fateful weekend-- and recover the things lost down by the water before she can at last let them go

Left on purpose( Visual )

1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Left on Purpose is a feature length documentary that confronts the growing issues of depression, isolation and aging through the friendship between an anti-war activist who has decided that his last political act will be to take his own life and the filmmaker who is struggling to tell the story

Inheritance by Joanna Hershon( Book )

1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Syskonsvek by Joanna Hershon( Book )

2 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in Swedish and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide